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Updated Computer GK Questions from competitive exams

computer related  questions updated  for PSC Exams

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1. Who invented Laptop?
Answer: Adam Osborne

2. Who is the first programmer
Answer: Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada King-Noel)

3. The Information technology act came into existence from which year?
Answer: 2000

4. The inventor of www (World wide web)?
answer: Tim Berner's lee

5. Computer Mouse was invented by?
Answer: Douglas Engelbart

6. Computer Mouse is which type of device(Input/output)?
Answer:  Input device

some other Input devices are - a keyboard, scanner, joystick 

examples of Output devices: Printers, monitors, speakers, projector

7. What is the full form for USB?
Answer: Universal serial bus

8. What is the purpose of BUS in computers?
Answer: BUS connects components of the computer 

9. what is the full form for  RAM
Answer: Random access memory

10. what is the full form for  ROM
Answer: Read-only memory

11*. Who is the father of computer science?
Answer: Alan Turing

12*. Who is the father of computers?
Answer: Charles Babbage

13*. Who is the founder of Hotmail?
 Answer: Sabeer Bhatia

14*. A device used for the modulation and demodulation of signals?
Answer: modem  

 15.   Information technology act 2000 came in to force from which date?
Answer: 17 October 2000

 Simple Computer-linked Questions

*16. First electronic computer?
answer: ENIAC

*17. ENIAC stands for?
Answer: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator


*18. Vacuum Tubes are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: First Generation of computers


*19. Transistors are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: Second Generation of computers


*20. IC chips are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: Third Generation of computers

*21. Microprocessors are used in which Generation of computers?
Answer: Fourth Generation of computers
 
 
 

List of Multinational companies and it's founders

Founders of Major Companies in Information technology are most frequent in competitive exams.

1. who is the founder of Microsoft?

Answer:-Bill Gates and Paul Allen


2. who is the founder of Google?

Answer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin


3. who is the founder of Facebook?

Answer: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg


4. who is the founder of Amazon?

Answer: Jeff Bezos


5. who is the founder of Flipkart?

Answer : Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal


6. who is the founder of Apple?

Answer: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne


7. what is the full form for  LAN
Answer: Local Area Network


8. what is the full form for  WAN
Answer: Wide Area Network

 9. what is the full form for  MAN
Answer: Metropolitan Area Network


What is the full form of AR in computer terminology?

Answer: Augmented reality


What is the full form of AI ?
Answer: Artificial intelligence


 
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*Last updated on 28/12/2018

19 comments:

  1. 1.What is the full form for UPS ?
    Answer: Uninterruptible power supply

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  2. Who is the founder of free software foundation?
    Answer:Richard stallman

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  3. Who is known as the father of Internet?

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  4. some important Expansions of computer terms

    MICR- Magnetic Ink Character Reader

    BCR- Bar Code Reader

    OMR- Optical Mark Reader

    OCR- Optical Character Reader

    VDU- Visual Display Unit

    CRT- Cathode Ray Tube

    LED- Light Emitting Diode

    SATA- Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (computer BUS)

    PATA- Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (computer BUS)

    USB- Universal Serial Bus

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  5. Which is the first computer game?
    Space war

    A group of four bits is known as ?
    Nibble

    What is the full form for SMTP ?
    Simple mail Transfer protocol

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  6. Thankyou for this helpful questions this is very interesting question gk questions

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  7. Python is a?
    Answer: programming language

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  8. What is a post on twitter is called?
    A-Status
    B- Story
    C-Tweet
    D- Poke

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  9. The first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender?
    Answer: el salvador

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  10. What is the full form of "WWW"?
    answer: World wide web

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  11. Widely used programming languages in Artificial intelligence?
    Answer: Python and LISP

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  12. what is the full form of URL?
    Unform Resource Locator

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  13. full form of http?
    Hypertext transfer Protocol

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